And your homework tonight is: do less of it

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The French President is right. We shouldn’t be torturing our children (and ourselves) with hours of extra study

Last weekend I took my two oldest children to TheTimes Cheltenham Literature Festival. Unfortunately, the pride I might have taken in this cultural immersion was undermined by guilt at having forgotten to pack my 10-year old’s homework. On the grindingly long journey home, I was more worried than he was that it might not get done by Monday morning.

For parents like me, who would secretly love to delegate some of the nagging back into the classroom, President Hollande’s attempt to ban homework in French schools has hit a nerve. François Hollande wants any extra work done in school,